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He's probably spent the least amount of time dealing with politics but it's what grabs him the most attention. This also causes lots of people to dislike him fo
by spamizbad 7y ago
He's probably spent the least amount of time dealing with politics but it's what grabs him the most attention. This also causes lots of people to dislike him for no good reason; there was a VC on twitter recently who basically said his work on linguistics and politics have been debunked and then proceeded block a few engineers who (rightly) pointed out his considerable contributions to PLT.
- sprafa 7y agoHis memory is remarkable. Even when he talks about politics he seems to know and remember more than virtually anyone else I’ve ever seen.
- yesenadam 7y ago>He's probably spent the least amount of time dealing with politics I'm not sure about that--he's written a lot of political books about particular countries/wars, each of them lengthy and painstakingly researched and footnoted--they alone would have been an ample life's work for most people. (I mean the earlier books, not the recent ones mostly based on interviews/conversations.) Then there's all the speeches, conversations, interviews etc on political topics.
- thundergolfer 7y ago> This also causes lots of people to dislike him for no good reason They're certainly not a "good" reason to dislike him, but the reasons are very real and significant. In the case of the VC, Chomsky spreads ideas that would destroy their economic power and give it the the people. People with millions of dollars in wealth are terrified of anarcho-syndicalists like Chomsky.